“I thought, ‘Isn’t my talent enough?’
A nose job would hurt and be expensive.
Besides, how could I trust anyone to do exactly what I wanted and no more?”
She suspected this contributed to her distinct vocal timbre.
Thus, a nasal surgery correcting this deviation would prove too risky and painful, for that matter.
“That probably hurts,” Streisand told Rachel Martin ofNPRin 2022.
“It might even change the sound of my voice.
You know, my deviated septum makes me who I am.
Why would I change it?”
The singer added that even her name was called into question at the onset of her career.
“When I first started to record…they wanted me to change my name to Barbra Sands.
No Joni Sands or something like that.”
(While she neverwent by a stage name, the singer didchange the way she spells her name.)
Moreover, Streisand added in her memoir that it was a personal preference.
The singer said she enjoyed the look of curved, long noses like Italian actress Silvana Mangano.
“Everyone seemed to think she was beautiful,” Streisand wrote.
While speaking at a Los Angeles event in 2018, the singer said she had never experienced sexual misconduct.
“I wasn’t like those pretty girls with nice little noses.
Maybe that’s why,” perHuffPost.
I’m trying to be in the moment, and I’m enjoying my life."
